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Good news: China might bail out Europe
Acquisitions. They already own the U.S. Why not complete the whole set? China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the euro zone using its $2.7trillion overseas investment fund....
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Happy Festivus!
For the rest of us. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It’s the closest thing we have to a true atheist holiday. And now, my friends, it’s gone global. While mostly noted today among Americans,...
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Lame: Pat Robertson didn’t mean we should decriminalize marijuana, says CBN
Spin. Well … yes, quite clearly he did mean that. But these are the sorts of games social cons have to play when it comes to drug laws, it seems. Even Palin, for all her boldness in taking righteous...
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What if we added 100 seats to the House of Representatives?
What could go wrong? I’m curious to see the reaction to this post by David Freddoso. On the one hand, more congressmen and smaller districts means greater accountability, which should please any...
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Finally: The Star Wars Christmas Special
Yule love it! Via Ace, this is not to be confused with “The Star Wars Holiday Special.” For starters, this one features a rapping C-3PO, not Bea Arthur singing torch songs, so it’s actually slightly...
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U.S. warned China: We won’t hold South Korea back if the North provokes again
Brinksmanship. That’s according to this report that was being passed around on Twitter earlier. In the spirit of the season, and since his vacation’s off to a, er, bad start, I’ll raise a glass of...
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Russian media: The missile defense provision in the new START treaty is...
Reset. Remember, the argument from START supporters since the beginning is that the treaty won’t compromise U.S. missile defense because the stuff about “defensive arms” is in the preamble, which isn’t...
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Video: TSA investigating pilot for posting videos that show security flaws
Hmmm. He’s not in trouble with the airline, but his status as an official federal Flight Deck Officer is in mortal peril. Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell...
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Quotes of the day
Ask and tell. “Fiano was, as were we, opposed to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. But she’s right to call out people like the ‘expert’ commentator from the professional right who suggested that as...
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Poll: Obamateurism of the Year, Flight 8
Ask me no questions ... The semifinal flights for the OOTY are beginning to take shape. Yesterday, in your wisdom, readers chose Barack Obama’s first-he-did, then-he-didn’t defense of the Ground Zero...
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Mumbai II about to hit?
Intel coup? If not, the diligence of India’s security professionals may be the only thing that stopped it. India declared a state of alert and named four members of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba that reportedly...
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Video: A Very Jack Bauer Christmas
Naughty. Via Cubachi, definitely not a Christmas special for the kiddies. Some strange alien in a UFO just shot across American skies, and Jack Bauer intends to get to the bottom of it. He’ll use any...
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What are the indispensable Christmas carols?
The best of the season. Two years ago, I posed the opposite question to Hot Air readers in a burst of Christmas Eve misanthropy, so consider this a long-overdue penance. What Christmas carols simply...
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Merry Christmas to America’s heroes, past and present
From all of us. No irony, no snark, no wittiness; just a Christmas salute to our men and women in uniform, past and present, wherever they may be. The Republican caucus of the House Oversight and...
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Video: The greatest first-person shooter ever
Awesome. What’s that you say? There’s no Christmas theme to this post? Au contraire, my friends: A few years from now, once video game technology has caught up, this will be at the very top of your...
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Quotes of the day
Comeback? “Riding the lamest of ducks, President Obama just won the Triple Crown. He fulfilled (1) his most important economic priority, passage of Stimulus II, a.k.a. the tax cut deal (the perfect...
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And unto us, a child is born
Blessed. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy...
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Christmas miracle: Peace in Bethlehem
Good news. I’m up early on Christmas morning, and the house is quiet. I just poured myself a cup of coffee and decided to check the news feeds to see if anything important had transpired overnight,...
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Video: The Nativity, digital-age style
Like. Via Fausta, how would the Nativity have unfolded in a digital age? ExcentricPT gives us a peek with this quick and funny look at the story of the birth of Jesus, managed through social media. In...
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Poll: Obamateurism of the Year, Flight 9
With our compliments. Don’t expect a course correction from us this far into the polling for the 2010 OOTY! Friday, voters selected Barack Obama’s decision to repeatedly edit the Declaration of...
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